I've never seen (or heard of) OldBoy, Repulsion or The Tenant but would love to see them after appearing on your list. I would however love to see why, in your opinion, they were so great! Rosemary's Baby was a good one to put on the list as far as psychologically horrifying; to see a woman knowing something is wrong and not knowing where to turn to or who to trust always gets me in the gut when watching---I loved it!

QUEENBFLIXJune 12, 2010

OLDBOY isn't for everyone. It's a Korean film and it's not just psychological it's violent and pretty hard to take. I'd advise checking out some reviews of it first. REPULSION starred Catherine Deneuve and it was Polanski's first feature film in English. THE TENANT is French They're all pretty easy to find.

Out of all the stuff Cronenberg has done I'd say that THE FLY is probably one of the least psychcologically based.

Count_Orlok_22June 13, 2010

I don't know, I would say that the idea of a physical and mental transformation that you have no control over is the essence of psychological horror. Kafka thought so too.

QUEENBFLIXJune 13, 2010

Well just because there are bugs involved doesn't mean that this is comparable to "Metamorphosis". Wait, wasn't that Camus? I wouldn't win on Jeopardy today. I really don't know.

Count_Orlok_22June 13, 2010

Well, yeah, sort of. The idea of people metamorphosing into insects or arachnids dates back to ancient Egyptian culture and early African folklore, but it was more the Greeks that popularized it and turned it into a punishment decreed by the gods. However, the first real example of a person turning into a bug in a work of literature was in Kafka's 1915 novella "The Metamorphosis" about Gregor Samsa who awakes to find that he's become a giant beetle.

QUEENBFLIXJune 13, 2010

I KNEW that I didn't know. I even read the damned thing.

Count_Orlok_22June 13, 2010

I'll be reviewing some Kafka at some point in the future... way off in the future.

QUEENBFLIXJune 14, 2010

Way, way off I hope.

Count_Orlok_22June 14, 2010

Not interested? Oh, I'm so hurt!

QUEENBFLIXJune 15, 2010

I'd read it but there are other things I'd rather see I supose.

Count_Orlok_22June 16, 2010

Okay, okay, no big beetles for Queenie then. ; )

QUEENBFLIXJune 16, 2010

Cronenberg's SPIDER is far more psychological than THE FLY--or there's always (shudder) CRASH. I have another new list up by the way.

Count_Orlok_22June 16, 2010

I loved "Crash" too. In fact, almost everything Cronenberg has done has been in the category of either psychological drama psychological horror, or psychological thriller. You could even add "A History of Violence" to that statement too.

QUEENBFLIXJune 16, 2010

CRASH was a little embarrassing. It sort of said that his psychoanalyst was going to be making a LOT more money in the future.

Count_Orlok_22June 17, 2010

You didn't like it? I thought it was great, but then I love anything that's disturbing or depressing... at least, so long as it's intentional. Right now, I'm all over "Requiem for a Dream" which I've watched three times in a row. See, I am a masochist. Gloom and doom makes me happy.

QUEENBFLIXJune 17, 2010

Even my daughter didn't like it. She embarrassed Rob in the lobby of the theater by doing the dialogue from one of the scenes.

Count_Orlok_22June 17, 2010

Weird. By the way, I never saw "Spiders", at least that I can remember. Is it good?

QUEENBFLIXJune 17, 2010

Not plural, singular. A lot of people didn't like it--it wasn't "Cronenberg" enough for them. I liked it though. Certainly a lot more than CRASH.

Count_Orlok_22June 17, 2010

Hmmmmm, I'll have to give it a view sometime.

QUEENBFLIXJune 18, 2010

I'd be interested in seeing if you hate it as much as everyone else seems to.

Count_Orlok_22June 18, 2010

I'm not really hateful unless we're talking about the majority of sequels, prequels, spin-offs, and remakes... oh, and pretty anything having to do with Jerry Bruckheimer, Roland Emmerich, and Michael Bay. And then there's also my dislike of mainstream politics, but I wouldn't go so far to call that hate, at least not when I'm in a good mood. ; )